PEACn-BLOSSOlI MOTH. 
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with the tip acute ; the body rather robust, and thd 
thorax famished with a transverse crest, which is 
forked posteriorly. When obtained in perfection, 
the species above referred to, named the Peach-blos- 
som from the colour of the spots on its upper udngs, 
is one of the most lovely found in this country. 
The upper wings are bro^vn wth dark transverse 
waved lines rather darkest towards the base, each 
of them with five rose-coloured spots, a large one 
at the base, clouded with bro>vn, two towards the 
tip (sometimes tmited), a third on the posterior 
angle having a brown spot in the middle, and a 
smaller one on the inner margin ; there is likewise 
a minute rosy spot on the hinder margin adjoining 
that on the posterior angle. The hinder wings are 
dusky inclining to ochre-yellow, and having a pale 
waved fine near the middle ; the abdomen of a 
similar colour. 
The caterpillar is of a very peculiar form, having 
a large gibbosity on the back a little behind the 
head cleft at the summit into two branches, and 
triangular elevations along the back marked with a 
pale zigzag line ; the colmrr rust-brown or blackish. 
It feeds on the common bramble. The moth ap- 
pears in June and July, and is usually found in the 
evening in the vicinity of woods ; it is not however 
of very frequent occmTence, although it seems to 
inhabit all the southern counties of England, and 
has occasionally occmTed pretty far north. “ Five 
or six specimens have been taken at Jardine Hall.” 
Sir W. Jardine, Bart. 
